Personally I welcome all 'call for speakers' announcements.
The fact is that most people on this list, and especially those who are
likely speak at meetings should be mature and informed enough to decide
whether they want to speak at a conference or not, and should not need to be
protected from predatory 'for profit' entrepeneurs.
To welcome some 'calls' and exclude others would IMO lead to a partisan list
smacking of exclusivity.
Frank
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Murray-Rust <peter@ursus.demon.co.uk>
To: <xml-dev@xml.org>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: Call for speakers (XML DevCon 2000, June 25-28)
> At 12:46 PM 2/18/00 +0000, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> >Um, who are you, and why should we support what looks like at first
> >glance like a purely money-making exercise on your part?
>
> [...]
>
> >Your registration form doesn't even include the cost before requiring
> >details. Your press release page is empty. I may be getting
> >suspicious in my old age, but this looks like a scam to me.
>
> [I deliberately don't comment on Henry's views]
>
> There is a further confusion - which I suspect may be unintentional but
> fooled me - in that there is/was a regular conference for XML developers
> run by GCA, etc. [I attended the one in Montreal in 1998] I seem to have
> seen it called xmldevcon somewhere. I had assumed that XML DevCon 2000 was
> the 2000 version, but having looked at the WWW page it doesn't look like
> it. Clarification, anyone?
>
> This is a difficult area for XML-DEV in that we have welcomed "mainstream"
> XML meetings, especially when they are related to developers' activities.
> Many of these have been GCA, WWW or OASIS-related. However there are
likely
> to be lots more XML activities now. It is important that we don't get
stuck
> in a single community "lest one good custom should corrupt the world".
> XML-DEV should not been seen to be "only for GCA and OASIS". Do we
> encourage (say) Xtech2000 to post calls here, while (possibly) persuading
> some others that XML-DEV is not the most appropriate place? Occasionally
in
> the past people used to e-mail me and ask whether X (conference, jobs,
> product, etc.) was suitable for posting on XML-DEV. Are there guidelines
> that we could develop?
>
> P.
>
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